If you are an organization working on behalf of the arts, human rights,
civil society, or democracy, you can apply for Project Galileo to get
Cloudflare’s highest level of protection, for free.

Founded in 2014, Project Galileo is Cloudflare’s response to cyber attacks
launched against important, yet vulnerable targets, like artistic groups,
humanitarian organizations, and the voices of political dissent.
These attacks have become all too prevalent and powerful in recent years.

The Internet is a powerful tool for spreading and expanding ideas.
Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet includes protecting
free expression online for vulnerable groups. When journalists,
social activists, and minority groups are repeatedly flooded with malicious
traffic in an attempt to knock them offline, and keep them offline, the
Internet stops fulfilling its promise.

Such organizations often face attacks from powerful and entrenched opponents,
yet operate on limited budgets and lack the resources to secure themselves
against malicious traffic intended to silence them.

Cloudflare provides robust security to enterprises that are the targets of
DDoS and other cyber attacks. Cloudflare’s Project Galileo has made that
same security available for at-risk public interest websites at no cost.

A qualified organization should meet one of the following criteria:

It is engaged in newsgathering, civil society, or political/artistic speech.

It is the subject of online attacks related to its newsgathering, civil society, or political/artistic speech.

It is a not-for-profit organization or a small commercial entity.

It acts in the public interest, broadly defined.

Many of our Galileo participants are under threat of persecution.
In an effort to keep participants safe from potential backlash, Cloudflare
will not publicly announce sites involved in Project Galileo without explicit permission.
We are grateful the following groups were willing to share their stories.

Read recipient stories:

Partners

Cloudflare is a leader in Internet security and performance solutions,
but we admittedly lack expertise in matters of geopolitics and human rights.
For this reason, we partner with respected free speech, public interest, and
civil society organizations to help it to identify in-need, at-risk websites
which are worthy of our pro bono efforts by participation in Project Galileo
and to ensure that we do not bring our personal and corporate biases to the
decision.

Once identified, Cloudflare extends its Enterprise-class DDoS protection and
business-level performance benefits to ensure these websites stay online,
protecting their voice from being silenced.